There had to be an easier way . . .

There is one thing that can be said about the Powers family- at least we are consistent. We consistently do things the hard way.

On Sunday, Brice broke a major family rule and loaded his air-soft bb handgun (it uses plastic bb's) - and decided to shoot it. He was with a friend and, well, common sense seems to go out the window when there are people to impress.

Either he is a VERY bad aim (which is most likely) or Owen stepped between the gun and the target at the worst possible moment. Well, Owen got shot - in the eye - and by "the eye" I mean directly in the iris of the eyeball.

Yeah. Ouch.

When I took him to my eye doctor, he said it was a very minor injury that should heal itself well, but there was some major concern as to why his vision was sooooo poor in that eye. An injury of this sort should not cause severe vision loss - apparently. (I mean, he ONLY got shot in the eye . . . )

So off we went to a specialist to see if there was any internal damage, such as bleeding, in the eye.

Come to find out there is truly no deeper damage to the eye, but he has other vision problems totally unrelated to the eye injury. Upon their first assessment, it appears that he is severely near-sighted in his right eye and actually far-sighted in his left eye. Because of this, his far-sighted eye does most of the seeing work - explaining the vision "loss" in his injured right eye.

We will go back on Friday to further investigate and learn the solutions to this problem. On Monday, we were only scheduled to discuss the injury - now we have more to talk about . . .

Here is what is so amazing about this story:

1. This could have gone undetected for years making the near-sighted eye weaker and weaker and harder to fix. This is a grace gift that we found it now. Owen gave us no reasons to be concerned for his vision.

2. Most people just go to the doctor and he finds their problems for them. No, we have to add more drama and pain to the process than any one family needs in a lifetime.

3. Owen is the most coordinated person in the family - and he does it all with only one eye working well. Both of my eyes work together and I can't even walk across an empty room without tripping. Life just isn't fair.

4. Brice now thinks he is the hero in this story rather than the culprit . . .

So, stay tuned. This can only get more and more fun.